On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 09:54:23AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: > > > I noticed recently that the GitHub contributions page for git.git did > > not seem very accurate. The problem is that while it uses shortlog, it > > does not respect .mailmap, because we do not have a working tree from > > which to read the .mailmap. > > > > This series adds a config option analogous to mailmap.file, but which > > reads from a blob in the repository (so the obvious thing to set it to > > is "HEAD:.mailmap" in a bare repo, and probably "master:.mailmap" if you > > frequently want to traverse while on unrelated branches). The obvious > > alternative is to checkout a temporary file of .mailmap and point > > mailmap.file at it, but this is a bit more convenient. > > Yeah, I think this is sane. > > Have you considered defaulting to read from HEAD:.mailmap even when > this new configuration is not there if core.bare is set? I would > imagine that it would be the most convenient and match people's > expectations.
Yeah, I almost suggested that, but I figured it could wait for the feature to prove itself in the real world before turning it on by default. It _should_ be pretty harmless, though, so I don't mind turning it on by default. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
